
Looking west, 25/12/2018.
Looking west, 25/12/2018.
Looking north towards the fort at Durn Hill, 25/12/2018.
Knock Hill from Both Hill.
12/01/2013 – Chilly day on Knock Hill
By this time the wind had moved down just very severe. Looking south west.
Snow is coming, I think!
North west towards Hill of Maud.
Looking straight north from the top.
Looking north west towards Buckie and the Moray Forth.
From the western side climbing up from Knockenbog.
Summit of Knock Hill. Lovely circle built recently by someone. don’t remember it last time I was there.
From Maggie Redhead Hill.
Lovely, I think.
From Netherdale, all roads around Turriff are blocked so I walked.
Taken from the Hill Of Foulzie.
Taken from the Monks Cairn. Ancient meets modern meets ancient.
Solstice Day 9.00pm from the Hill Of Cairns.
From Retenach Hill, Oakenknowes is on the smaller hill to the left.
From Cairnborrow Hill.
No rain from the top of Sillyearn Hill.
Here comes a drenching 1 hour later.
From the East, near Culvie.
Climbed up from the west side parking at Knockenbog. From there I used the path then climbed the fence and went straight up. For 3/4s of the way it was fairly long tough heather and jabby things but after jumping a ditch the heather becomes fairly short making it much easier to reach the top. At the bottom it was calm. At the top a major gale blew with occasional hail for good company. Still the trig provided cover for a wee sit down and a chance to admire the scenery before clouds and darkness moved in.
The small circle, same as Theolonius, wasn’t there the last time I was here but it looks very pretty with it’s little outlier. A couple of cairns are at the top, one a climbers cairn and the other a memorial to a youngster from Aberchirder who died tragically young.
Visited 2/1/2012.
6 miles SE of Portsoy and rising to 1412 feet, Knock Hill plays a major part in the landscape of this area of NE Scotland. It is an extict volcano visible for miles around, and can be seen from many sites.
It provides a Northern focal point in the megalithic landscape like Benachie and the other sacred hills further South.